(This week, I am dealing with the subject: Fatherhood. Take a minute to also review my entries on Monday and Tuesday.)
Every year, the company I work for has "open enrollment". During this time, I complete my designations for the medical benefits for the upcoming year. The health insurance company wants to know how many dependents I have. Essentially, they are trying to find out how many people, besides me, are going to be covered on my insurance plan.
But why do they use the word dependents? Are they saying that there are other human beings that actually depend on me for their well-being?
The answer is yes!
Your children didn't volunteer to be your dependents. Let me say it another way...You children didn't ask to be brought into this world. When you engaged in the world famous "conception ritual", you simultaneously agreed to raise, train, and provide for that dependent until they became independent themselves.
Fathers, as our children grow up, they need our provision, protection, guidance, and support. The bottom line is, our children depend on our love.
Don't let them down.
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at the barber shop the other day a comment was made about the number of mothers at football practice with their sons. The lack of Fathers/men was very obvious to this person. He even knew some of the fathers, who were absent. Its a problem, a big problem. Fathers play a major role in the family unit. Men not understanding the role, and operating in it, creates problems for everyone else in the family. The men are the first, the foundation, the Head of the family. Their shakiness will lead to huge mess. The Older men must do a better job of mentoring the young men.
What would happen if women were as irresponsible as men?
What I mean is, what if women (or girls in many cases) ALSO chose not to care for their child, would the men behave differently then?
Here's what I'm getting at...men may not take responsibility for their dependents because they know that someone else will.
Men don't cook, don't clean, don't pick up after themselves, because someone else will.
Would they behave differently if they had to?
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